Subj : Re: NetBSD
To   : Mortar M.
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Thu Dec 04 2025 07:01:26

-=> Mortar M. wrote to Ed Vance <=-

 MM> I used an ASR-33 back when I was in my college's amateur radio club.  I
 MM> loved that thing.  When you typed on it, you felt like you were doing
 MM> something special.

 When I started working on Nortel PBXes, they printed to an ASR-33.
 Nice, because starting out I could save the printouts as references.
 They also printed out timestamps and lots of diagnostic information
 during the midnight routines (the "mids") that you could check in the
 morning by looking at the paper spooled off the TTY.


 
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